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So I rose to go, but as I went some impulse seemed to take hiain

"Macumazahn," he said, "I would add a word When you were quite a lad

you came into this country with Retief, did you not?"

"Yes," I answered slowly, for this matter of the massacre of Retief is

one of which I have seldoh

I have [] Even my friends Sir Henry

Curtis and Captain Good have heard little of the part I played in that

tragedy "But what do you know of that business, Zikali?"

[--Published under the title of "Marie"--EDITOR] "All that there is to know, I think, Macuaan killed those Boers on ana"

"You cold-blooded old an, but he interrupted me at

once

"Why do you throw evil names at me, Macumazahn, as I threw the stone of

your fate at you just now? Why aht about

the death of some white men that chanced to be your friends, who had

come here to cheat us black folk of our country?"

"Was it for this reason that you brought about their deaths, Zikali?"

I asked, staring hi tohis eyes, those

strange eyes that could look at the sun without blinking, fall before

akona?

And when Retief and his co of

their blood mean war to the end between the Zulus and the White Men? Did

it not aan and of thousands of his people, which